Random pet peeve: People pronouncing 北京 with the same sound as in “fusion” when it’s a god damned unaspirated /t∫/ not an /ʒ/.
i think some phonemes feel like Ugly Americanisms for weird reasons not related to actual foreign usage and we're driven to exoticize them
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this probably generalizes to the same sort of thing that leads to reality seeming less believable than movies.
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